| Project: | Solar Tool |
| Component: | Analysis Methods |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Description
I was tring to determine the effects of a partially shaded window and come up with what would be the equivalent size window without the shading. Placing the numerical percentages of shading on the graph really helped but ultimately I averaged the tabular data to get what I was after.
How hard would it be to calculate insolation values over a time period (hourly, over a day)? It would be a great asset to be able to find the energy entering the window given the shading configuration.
Hello Jeff, Indeed, that
Hello Jeff,
Indeed, that would be a neat trick
At the moment, only ECOTECT has the feature of calculating the energy entering your window, given your shading configuration - I assume you have already had a look at the features in details of ECOTECT on this website.
I do not know if it is in the plans to have the Solar Tool sport the same analysis feature. This would involve having the Solar Tool being able to import weather data files (where radiation data are recorded). Perhaps a simpler approach would be an option to enter a given radiation value (say global on horizonal) to be used for simple calculations within the Solar Tool.
All you need is the window area, its SHGF (or how much solar energy it lets in), and the amount of solar radiation received on the window (vertical surface), which would be affected by the amount of shading caused by the shading device...
Or you could use ECOTECT
Cheers,
Olivier